Could the theory which predicted gravitational waves be wrong?

Posted on 03/10/2017 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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UK invests £65M in Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment in US

Posted on 24/09/2017 by Jon Butterworth

There were a lot of happy neutrino physicists around the UK and the US on Wednesday, as the long-standing partnership between the two countries in particle physics was bolstered by a new agreement

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Experiment reveals evidence for a previously unseen behaviour of light

Posted on 03/09/2017 by Jon Butterworth

Beams of light do not, generally speaking, bounce off each other like snooker balls. But at the high energies in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN they have just been observed doing exactly that

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Newly discovered particles, and what’s in them

Posted on 20/08/2017 by Jon Butterworth

Quarks, basically. But more charming than usual

: Daniel Dominguez/CERN

Representation of a doubly heavy-quark baryon, such as that discovered at LHCb Photograph: Daniel Dominguez/CERN

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